I could not put down this potent, compelling book. Two schoolboys with opposite personalities bond in a small town in Switzerland in the aftermath of WWII. Gustav is steady, poor, and devoted to Anton, a talented Jewish pianist. Gustav’s impoverished homelife is set against the warmth and plenty of Anton’s family. Throughout five decades, their relationship endures, adapts, and wrings the reader’s heart. Ultimately a love story, Tremain – an award-winning British author of prodigious skill – explores the choices individuals are forced to make during and after a genocidal war while struggling for a love that dares not speak its name.
THANKS. It does sound great
Posted by: Sheila Parks | 23 January 2020 at 13:56